Spanish Armada Research Paper

The Spanish Armada was a very important battle in Western Europe. It was fought in very demanding times between two very powerful countries Spain and England. After the brave explorer Christopher Columbus sailed to find a faster root to Asia and found the “New World” instead, supply and demand took off in Spain’s economy. The beloved element gold was the key to building up a country and that's exactly what Spain wanted to do. However, a few hundred miles away was Queen Elizabeth and her Kingdom. With a desire to take all the gold and be willing to fight for it, Spain and England had lots of tension stretching between the two getting ready to break into a war. The “invicible Armada” (History) was a fleet of 130 Spanish ships that sailed from La Coruna Spain 1588. Even though the Armada wasn’t Spain’s strongest navy, it was still one of the biggest and most

Fought in the Mid-Atlantic oceans and England’s coast, the Spanish and the British knew exactly where each other where. As the Spanish made there way sailing out of Coruna, Spain, it was there where the fleet was gathered and sailed along the dangerous and narrow coasts of England under command of the “iron Duke” (reformation). There goal was to traveled along the coast taking each city one by one and wiping the British out slowly but surely. Battles of Portland, Plymouth, Wight, Brulotte, and Gravelines where the famous battles fought on England's coast and they all tested the strength of the Spanish Armada. As they managed to move their ships north and traveled along the north-eastern border of England and France, weather started to take a greater advantage therefore slowing the process down drastically. Food and Water had been at a low quantity and with England, France, Ireland, and Scotland all surrounding the Armada, there was nowhere safe to set anchor and resupply with new weapons and fresh food and